I18N Status

This article deals with the localisation/translation of both TDM itself, as well as Fan Missions.

The I18N support in TDM will only work with v1.07 or newer.

FM List

This list is incomplete!

Name	i18n	Czech	Dansk	English	French	German	Italian	Spanish	Russian	Portuguese	Polish
A Special Delivery	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Awaiting the Storm	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Business as Usual	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Chalice of the Kings	50%	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Closemouthed Shadows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
House in Blackbog Hollow	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
House Of Theo	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Living Expenses	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Mad's Mountain	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Pandora's Box	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Rake Off	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	90%	No	No	No	No	No
Somewhere Above the City	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Swing	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Crown of Penitence	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Illusionist's Tower	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Outpost	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	50%	50%	No	No	No	No
The Parcel	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Rift	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Sons of Baltona 1	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Tears of Saint Lucia	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Thieves	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Thief's Den	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Too Late	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Training Mission	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Trapped!	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Winter Harvest v2.4	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

If you want to help translating these missions into other languages, you can download them here.

TDM Core

99%

• All the strings in the menu, the HUD, the in-game messages, the different menus as well as inventory item names and categories have been made translatable.
• A charset has been defined and made supported by the code.
• Both the menu font (Carleton) and the HUD font (Stone) have been patched to include the foreign characters. (Stone misses a few, esp. uppercase ones.)
• The bitmaps in the various menus where converted to text, including the huge headers
• The default Doom3 english.lang has been slimmed down (from >5400 to 200 entries), then all the nec. strings for TDM have been added, including a lot of sensible default strings that are either useful or used in FMs (like names for inventory items, speaker names and so on), resulting over 1130 entries.
• There is a script which can convert old FMs into I18N capable FMs, even matching different translations.
• Both the 0xff character bug, as well as the problem that choiceDefs do not work have been resolved
• Translations are complete for English, Danish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, French, Spanish and German.
• Hungarian, Slovak and Dutch are supported in the meunu, but not yet translated, hopefully some translators step up.

TODO

1. The Download and Load/Save menu still need to be converted so their headlines can be translated.
2. Adding accented and Umlaut characters the other fonts (only the 24px variant needs still to be done). To make this easier, a Font Patcher utility has been written.
3. When an l10n.pk4 file is updated, the entire mission is redownloaded. That should be avoided somehow.
4. Find more people who can contribute translations – maybe make it easier by creating a website where anyone can contribute translations for individual strings, ala launchpad?

See Also

• I18N - Main article

Translation resources

• The charset TDM fonts use
• I18N.pl - a script to transform a FM into a mission and I18N data
• Bug Tracker entry #2779
• Text Decals for Signs etc.
• Fonts in TDM
• Font Conversion & Repair - with links to ExportFontToDoom3, Q3Font, Refont, and Font Patcher

Overview of translations

• I18N Status - Which FMs are translated into which language (not entirely up to date)
• Translating FMs
• List of translators
• Translator's Guide

Translation discussions

• Internationalization (Language) usage in TDM - Coverage of the topic by Tels.
• Translating the GUI
• The Dark Mod translation
• About localizing
• Translating missions: Mission author consensus request
• Discussion on state and accessibility of localizations back in 2013